friar

member of a mendicant male religious order in the Roman Catholic Church
Intangible catholic_vocation Q548320
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friar

Summary

friar is a Catholic vocation[1]. friar ranks in the top 5% of catholic_vocation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,028 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • friar's image is recorded as Monaco andante.JPG[3].
  • friar's instance of is recorded as Catholic vocation[4].
  • friar's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85051969[5].
  • friar's subclass of is recorded as religious[6].
  • friar's subclass of is recorded as member of Roman Catholic religious orders and societies[7].
  • friar's part of is recorded as mendicant order[8].
  • friar's Commons category is recorded as Roman Catholic friars[9].
  • friar's pronunciation audio is recorded as De-Bruder2.ogg[10].
  • friar's said to be the same as is recorded as religious brother[11].
  • friar's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 17959[12].
  • friar's honorific prefix is recorded as Friar[13].
  • friar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01tdlv[14].
  • friar's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph297089[15].
  • friar's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Roman Catholic friars[16].
  • friar's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300266789[17].
  • friar's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 271.0092[18].
  • friar's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0184833[19].
  • friar's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20].
  • friar's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • friar's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/friar[22].
  • friar's has characteristic is recorded as begging[23].
  • friar's different from is recorded as brother[24].
  • friar's different from is recorded as Catholic monk[25].
  • friar's different from is recorded as regular cleric[26].
  • friar's different from is recorded as canon regular[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for friar include Isle of the Friars[28], an island[29], in Brazil[30].

Why It Matters

friar ranks in the top 5% of catholic_vocation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,028 views/month).[2] friar has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] friar is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for friar include Isle of the Friars[28], an island[29], in Brazil[30].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Library of Congress. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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